Blocked Score Quotes

“Give yourself permission to believe in yourself as much as you should.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“It’s the exact tattoo Scarlett jokingly said I should get in bed that day: a penguin holding a pool cue. Such a silly design, right? But my breath still catches from the memories it calls up every time I look at it. “You … remember?” I ask. Something sharpens in her gaze. “Of course I remember.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“It’s the exact tattoo Scarlett jokingly said I should get in bed that day: a penguin holding a pool cue. Such a silly design, right? But my breath still catches from the memories it calls up every time I look at it. “You … remember?” I ask. Something sharpens in her gaze.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“Oh, man,” he says, slapping his knee. “You’ve been keeping secrets from me, dude. That’s not cool. But I’ve never seen that girl in my life. Just wanted to confirm a suspicion.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“It’s her. There’s no mistaking it. The fine hairs on the back of my neck pull straight up. An electric shiver rolls through my body. The outlines of the ink engraved below my left armpit burn. For the first time in a year and a half, I’m looking at Scarlett Astor.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“How ‘bout this,” she says, “if it’s meant to be, we’ll see each other around. It’s a long summer in a small neighborhood. And if we don’t,” she shrugs again, “it clearly wasn’t.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“Maybe instead of it being like seeing someone who looks like they stepped out of your own fantasies and into reality, it’s like seeing someone who you never would have imagined, and them stepping into your head and rearranging all the furniture in there.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“Ialways thought I knew what love at first sight would feel like. I don’t know if I ever really believed in it. But I always thought that if it did exist, I’d know it for sure if it happened to me. I imagined it must be like seeing someone who immediately checks every single box you’ve ever wanted in a partner.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“Hey, don’t turn it off just when it’s starting to get good,” he says.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score

“Lane … I never sent this.” “Then … how?” A blaze of realization flares in Scarlett’s eyes. “Caleb.”
― Lyssa Lemire, Blocked Score